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Unfamiliarity is first step toward intolerance

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Wednesday September 18, 2013 4:35 AM

I’m going to go out on a limb here and assume letter writer Raymond Todd Petit of Westerville
has had very limited exposure to gays (“God loves gays, but wants them to repent,” Saturday).

I understand how difficult it is for people accept gays when they have not had a chance to
witness how natural it is for those born homosexual to be attracted to one another — as natural as
it is for heterosexuals to be attracted to one another.

But with a little effort, one could put oneself in their shoes, shrug one’s shoulders and move
on, without calling anyone a “sinner.”

If we are going to point out sinners, we should stop wasting our time on consenting adults and
turn to the sellers and buyers of children in the growing sex-trafficking industry in this
country.

Kids — 20 percent boys, in addition to girls — as young as 9 years old are being picked up at
truck stops and malls and forced into acts daily.

There are estimated to be more than 2,000 enslaved kids in Ohio alone, 84 percent Ohio-born
(facts from Salvation Army, Sex Trafficking 101).

To Petit and those of like mind, let’s get some perspective and focus our energy on bigger “
problems.”